Two weeks after Heather had gone back Elliot Reed and Perry Cox were still sleeping together.
In a strange way they didn't talk about it, or define it, but most nights Perry came to Elliot's flat.
It didn't change anything: In the hospital he was still Dr Cox, bastard extraordinaire and she was Dr Reed, neurotic walking disaster.
So, perhaps Carla realized her friend Perry was a bit more relaxed than normal but his mood was always more changeable than most saw.
Elliot was more relaxed as well, even with her still being as neurotic as always but in contrast to Carla JD didn't see the subtle changes.
To be honest JD was busy between daydreaming, playing with Turk, crying over his nonexistent sex-life, working and his personal war with the janitor.
She knew she could easily get his attention with just telling him about Perry (Perry was the guy she slept with, Dr Cox was the man that made her working hours hell. Two different people who shared the same face). She didn't do that for three reasons:
1. - This was something that only belonged to her, nobody else. She liked the idea of having something nobody else knew about.
2. - From how JD acted he would be jealous. She just wasn't sure of whom he would be jealous in this scenario (everybody knew he worshipped the ground Dr Cox was walking on) and preferred not knowing.
3. - She was afraid what would happen if it got out. Not because of her friends or how the others would see her, she was afraid because of Jordan. The older woman was frightening just sitting there, she didn't want to have her against her.
It was just a matter of time before something had to change, life was never this static for longer periods of time.
In this case the one responsible was Mrs Reed, the reason for most of Elliot's neurotic behavior.
She had decided to see her daughter to explain to her in detail that she wasn't getting any younger and her window of finding a potential husband was narrowing with every day and every pound she had too much on her pudgy body more.
She needed Perry just to get over the day and face her abuser and while Perry was very willing to help her out with that (One minute in the nearer vicinity of Mrs Reed and he contemplated going postal), it wasn't easy sneaking around in the hospital, even with on call rooms and janitor closets.
Elliot would never have thought she would end being one of those perverted people who had sex in the morgue but once in the 4 days of hell aka Mrs Reeds stay that was the only possible place.
And after doing something as perverted as that, she forgot her panties there.
Talk about mistakes.